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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character past men
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
able definitions want
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up. Alan Watts
able bodhisattva preaching
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
able indecision plans
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. Alan Rickman
able wonderful goodness
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. Aiden Wilson Tozer
able cubs pipers
When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub Edward James Olmos
able sound computer
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off. David Tudor
able lost havens
I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. David Duchovny
able tasks speed
Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before. Ben Stiller
able outrage outraged
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore. Barney Frank
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Charles Spurgeon
too-much used changed
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me. China Mieville
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. David Hockney
too-much young knows
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death. Benazir Bhutto
too-much disaster
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much. Benedict Cumberbatch
too-much eating said
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'. Beatrix Potter
too-much asks
It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope. Audrey Hepburn
too-much failing rely
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much. Arnold J. Toynbee
too-much littles human-nature
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. Arnold Bennett